NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. — Kipster announces the use of in-ovo sexing technology as an alternative to culling male chicks at hatch. The company notes that it is the second in the U.S. to use this cutting-edge approach that allows for the sex determination of chick embryos in hatching eggs during incubation. The eggs with males are immediately removed once identified, thereby preventing the hatching and culling of the day-old male chicks as is common in the U.S. egg industry.
The U.S. egg industry kills more than 350 million male chicks each year after they hatch. . .